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Railroad problem

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:05 pm
by Alifanov
Greetings!

Look here:
http://world.waze.com/cartouche/?zoom=4 ... 13&layers=

In update mode you can see a railroad near the bridge.
In live mode there is no railroad (on the device too).
Railroad was created on december 2010.
"Last updated" is 13-02-2011.

Why there is no railroad? Conversion bug? Or, railroads are never shown on a live map? Or, this area wasn't updated since december 2010?

And, when this area will be updated again?

Thanks!
Alexander Lifanov

Re: Railroad problem

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 9:01 pm
by AlanOfTheBerg
jondrush wrote:I don't think they did. They said they would, but I haven't seen any evidence that they actually did it.
I can't whether or not they did for sure, but around my areas, I can see that there are very few RR road types on the map, but a few do persist. I can also see where a RR line would have been and where it crosses motor vehicle roadways At those locations, there are nodes, which suggests that these nodes used to be where the RR crossed the vehicle roadway, but the RR was removed... by someone or something.

Re: Railroad problem

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:41 pm
by Alifanov
dmcconachie wrote:Railroads are never shown on Live Map (or clients) through fear that somebody will turn onto it and blame waze!
%-) Could you point me to the place of that discussion? I've seen lots of navigation software, embedded or not, but NO software hides railways. When you're in the middle of nowhere, and you're driving with
your eyes (using the software like a paper map), railway crossing may be your single landmark to find a turn. Or, you think that routing software can drive you via railway?

C'mon, guys, Waze is not the navigation software for blonde (nothing personal). Blondes use iGo.
dmcconachie wrote: It has been discussed on the form and a few of us feel that they should be visible for reference!
How many are "a few"? ;)

I can say you one thing. There IS a way to visually separate a railway and a road. You just need to use a special line style.

This is the same place in various online maps:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=55.66 ... 4&layers=M
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=55.6 ... 38581&z=15
http://maps.yandex.ru/?ll=37.429187%2C5 ... z=15&l=map

And, if the railroads are not visible in client, we should delete them from the editor?
And, maybe we should not draw rivers - somebody will mess them with wide road.

Re: Railroad problem

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 7:36 am
by Alifanov
I've read the history.
No words, just emotions. %-/

Let's try to do it with uservoice.

http://waze.uservoice.com/forums/59223- ... oads-back-

Re: Railroad problem

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:20 pm
by dmcconachie
Railroads are never shown on Live Map (or clients) through fear that somebody will turn onto it and blame waze!

It has been discussed on the form and a few of us feel that they should be visible for reference!

Re: Railroad problem

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 6:46 pm
by dmcconachie
Here's a couple...

http://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5236
http://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5837

The roblem isn't so much that people can't differentiate them from roads, of course they could (and should) just have the hashed mark road-type. The problem is in their current incarnation they are essentially just roads! There is a risk that they become joined to existing roads and the server misinterprets them. Waze actually ran an exercise on the cartouche to remove them all last year! This is what sparked the first query above!

Rivers etc are different because they are landmarks rather than roadtypes!

Re: Railroad problem

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 6:46 pm
by dmcconachie
Dammit, beaten to it twice!

Re: Railroad problem

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:18 pm
by freddiechopin
Railroads are not shown in live map or in the client.

4\/3!!

Re: Railroad problem

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 6:32 pm
by Hosta
Im with that few, i think railroads should be shown on client map. Or why do we have POIs like beacons, lakes and forests? Yes,to help in visual navigation.

Re: Railroad problem

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 7:22 pm
by jondrush
dmcconachie wrote: Waze actually ran an exercise on the cartouche to remove them all last year!
I don't think they did. They said they would, but I haven't seen any evidence that they actually did it.